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The Pheasant June 23, 2008

‘The pheasant in the marshes has to take ten steps in order to get one beakful of food, one hundred steps for one drink of water. Yet it doesn’t want to be kept in a cage. Though it would be fed like a king, it would not be happy.’

~~Chuang Tsu, Inner Chapters

Chuang Tsu was to Lao Tsu (author of the Tao Te Ching) as Saint Paul was to Jesus and Plato was to Socrates. He developed the doctrines of Taoism with rigorous logic from Lao Tsu’s more poetic writings. The seven “Inner Chapters” of his teaching represent the part of his work that scholars definitely attribute to him.